Exploring the origins of binding specificity through the computational redesign of calmodulin.

abstract：:The Hurler syndrome (alpha-L-iduronidase deficiency disease) is a severe lysosomal storage disorder that is potentially amenable to enzyme-replacement therapy. Availability of a canine model of the disease and a sufficient supply of corrective enzyme have permitted a therapeutic trial lasting 3 mo. Recombinant human a...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Shull RM,Kakkis ED,McEntee MF,Kania SA,Jonas AJ,Neufeld EF

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human fibroblast cells treated with a combination of inhibitors of protein and RNA synthesis [cycloheximide and actinomycin D as used to superinduce interferon beta (IFN-beta)] secrete two proteins with molecular masses of 22000 and 27000 kilodaltons (called 22-kDal and 27-kDal) that are precipitable with an antiserum...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Content J,De Wit L,Pierard D,Derynck R,De Clercq E,Fiers W

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integral membrane proteins that form water-filled channels through membranes often exist as aggregates of similar or identical subunits spanning the membrane. It has been suggested that the insertion into the membrane of the channel-forming domains of the subunits may impart unusual structural features to the membrane...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Maher PA,Singer SJ

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to cobalt, zinc, and cadmium specified by the czc determinant on plasmid pMOL30 in Alcaligenes eutrophus results from a cation efflux system. Five membrane-bound polypeptides that were expressed in Escherichia coli from this determinant under the control of a phage T7 promoter were assigned to four open rea...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nies DH,Nies A,Chu L,Silver S

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular models generally used in the in vitro evaluation of anti-human immunodeficiency virus compounds are dividing cells. A model constituted by resting lymphocytes may more accurately reflect a drug's future efficacy in humans, since viral DNA synthesis is known to take place in quiescent cells, creating a res...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Malley SD,Grange JM,Hamedi-Sangsari F,Vila JR

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A Down's syndrome associated gene, Single Minded 2 gene short form (SIM2-s), is specifically expressed in colon tumors but not in the normal colon. Antisense inhibition of SIM2-s in a RKO-derived colon carcinoma cell line causes growth inhibition, apoptosis, and inhibition of tumor growth in a nude mouse tumoriginicit...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Aleman MJ,DeYoung MP,Tress M,Keating P,Perry GW,Narayanan R

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how chromatin folds in its native state. Using optimized in situ hybridization and live imaging techniques have determined compaction ratios and fiber flexibility for interphase chromatin in budding yeast. Unlike previous studies, ours examines nonrepetitive chromatin at intervals short enough to...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bystricky K,Heun P,Gehlen L,Langowski J,Gasser SM

更新日期：2004-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome is responsible for degradation of substrates of the ubiquitin pathway. 20S proteasomes are cylindrical particles with subunits arranged in a stack of four heptameric rings. The outer rings are composed of alpha subunits, and the inner rings are composed of beta subunits. A well-characterized archaeal pr...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Arendt CS,Hochstrasser M

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV type 1 (HIV-1) specifically uses host cell tRNALys-3 as a primer for reverse transcription. The 3' 18 nucleotides of this tRNA are complementary to a region on the HIV RNA genome known as the primer binding site (PBS). HIV-1 has a strong preference for maintaining a lysine-specific PBS in vivo, and viral genomes w...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chan B,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:HOX11, a divergent homeodomain-containing transcription factor, was isolated from the breakpoint of the nonrandom t(10;14)(q24;q11) chromosome translocation found in human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias. The translocation places the HOX11 coding sequence under the transcriptional control of TCR alpha/delta regul...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hough MR,Reis MD,Singaraja R,Bryce DM,Kamel-Reid S,Dardick I,Breitman ML,Dubé ID

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids (GCs) are potent anti-inflammatory agents that block cytokine production. We investigated whether GCs also block cytokine signaling via the Janus kinase (Jak)-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway. Dexamethasone inhibited IL-2-induced DNA binding, tyrosine phosphorylation, and...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bianchi M,Meng C,Ivashkiv LB

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanism of growth hormone release by synthetic somatocrinin was investigated on purified hog anterior pituitary secretory granules; the granules were found to contain a cAMP-dependent protein kinase that catalyzed [gamma-32P]-ATP histone phosphorylation with maximal rates ranging from 1 to 5 nmol of Pi...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lewin MJ,Reyl-Desmars F,Ling N

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations at the mouse limb deformity (ld) locus result in defects of growth and patterning of the limb and kidney during embryonic development. The gene responsible for this phenotype is large and complex, with the capacity to generate a number of alternatively spliced messenger RNA transcripts encoding nuclear prote...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Vogt TF,Jackson-Grusby L,Rush J,Leder P

更新日期：1993-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugated linoleic acids (CLAs) affect body fat gain, carcinogenesis, insulin resistance, and lipid peroxidation in mammals. Several isomers of CLA exist, of which the (9Z, 11E) and (10E, 12Z) isomers have beneficial effects on human metabolism but are scarce in foods. Bacterial polyunsaturated fatty acid isomerases ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Liavonchanka A,Hornung E,Feussner I,Rudolph MG

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Charge transfer at metallo-molecular interfaces may be used to design multifunctional hybrids with an emergent magnetization that may offer an eco-friendly and tunable alternative to conventional magnets and devices. Here, we investigate the origin of the magnetism arising at these interfaces by using different techni...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Al Ma'Mari F,Rogers M,Alghamdi S,Moorsom T,Lee S,Prokscha T,Luetkens H,Valvidares M,Teobaldi G,Flokstra M,Stewart R,Gargiani P,Ali M,Burnell G,Hickey BJ,Cespedes O

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoplasmic Myc protein (c-Myc) regulates various human genes and is dysregulated in many human cancers. Phosphorylation mediates the protein activation of c-Myc and is essential for the function of this transcription factor in normal cell behavior and tumor growth. To date, however, the targeting of Myc as a ther...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Fan-Minogue H,Cao Z,Paulmurugan R,Chan CT,Massoud TF,Felsher DW,Gambhir SS

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A solid-phase immunoadsorbent capable of binding mouse interferon has been prepared. Starting from crude tissue-culture material, interferon could be purified 1990 times in a single step of affinity chromatography. Overall recovery ranged from 55 to 103% with tissue culture and mouse-brain interferon; however, only 5%...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Sipe JD,de Maeyer-Guignard J,Fauconnier B,de Maeyer E

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP ribosylation factor (ARF) is a small guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-binding protein that regulates the binding of coat proteins to membranes and is required for several stages of vesicular transport. ARF also stimulates phospholipase D (PLD) activity, which can alter the lipid content of membranes by conversion of p...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ktistakis NT,Brown HA,Sternweis PC,Roth MG

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid synovial cell monolayers, with [1-14C]arachidonic acid ([1-14C]AA) incorporated into cell lipids, are stimulated by a factor (RSF) produced by explant cultures of rheumatoid synovial tissue to produce up to 50-fold increases in [1-14C]prostaglandin E2 and [1-14C]prostaglandin I2. In contrast, levels of free...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Robinson DR,Bastian D,Hamer PJ,Pichiarallo DM,Stephenson ML

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Destruction of mitotic cyclins by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis is required for cells to complete mitosis and enter interphase of the next cell cycle. In clam eggs, this process is catalyzed by a cyclin-selective ubiquitin carrier protein, E2-C, and the cyclosome/anaphase promoting complex (APC), a 20S particle cont...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Townsley FM,Aristarkhov A,Beck S,Hershko A,Ruderman JV

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The free radicals nitric oxide and superoxide anion react to form peroxynitrite (ONOO-), a highly toxic oxidant species. In vivo formation of ONOO- has been demonstrated in shock and inflammation. Herein we provide evidence that cytotoxicity in cells exposed to ONOO- is mediated by DNA strand breakage and the subseque...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Szabó C,Zingarelli B,O'Connor M,Salzman AL

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies to elicit Abs that can neutralize diverse strains of a highly mutable pathogen are likely to result in a potent vaccine. Broadly neutralizing Abs (bnAbs) against HIV have been isolated from patients, proving that the human immune system can evolve them. Using computer simulations and theory, we study immuni...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Shaffer JS,Moore PL,Kardar M,Chakraborty AK

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomass burning drives changes in greenhouse gases, climate-forcing aerosols, and global atmospheric chemistry. There is controversy about the magnitude and timing of changes in biomass burning emissions on millennial time scales from preindustrial to present and about the relative importance of climate change and hum...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Nicewonger MR,Aydin M,Prather MJ,Saltzman ES

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An integral mitochondrial membrane protein (p32) of yeast has previously been molecularly cloned and sequenced and suggested to function as a mitochondrial import receptor. However, this protein has also been proposed to function as phosphate translocator [Guérin, B., Bukusoglu, C., Rakotomanana, F. & Wohlrab, H. (199...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Murakami H,Blobel G,Pain D

更新日期：1993-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding activity of p53 is crucial for its tumor suppressor function and is subject to tight regulation. Previous studies revealed that the inhibitory function of the p53 C terminus is implicated in the latent, low affinity sequence-specific DNA binding activity of p53 in the uninduced state. Sequence-specific...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Müller-Tiemann BF,Halazonetis TD,Elting JJ

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lentiviruses, including HIV-1, have transmembrane envelope (Env) glycoproteins with cytoplasmic tails that are quite long compared with those of other retroviruses. However, mainly because of the lack of biochemical studies performed in cell types that are targets for HIV-1 infection, no clear consensus exists regardi...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Murakami T,Freed EO

更新日期：2000-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The prgB gene encodes the surface protein, Asc10, which mediates cell aggregation, resulting in high-frequency conjugative transfer of the pheromone-inducible tetracycline-resistance plasmid pCF10 in Enterococcus faecalis. Messenger RNA analysis by Northern blot hybridization and primer extension indicates that prgB t...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chung JW,Dunny GM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single molecule fluorescence polarization techniques have been used for three-dimensional (3D) orientation measurements to observe the dynamic properties of single molecules. However, only few techniques can simultaneously measure 3D orientation and position. Furthermore, these techniques often require complex equipme...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ohmachi M,Komori Y,Iwane AH,Fujii F,Jin T,Yanagida T

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports that there are major differences between mammalian cell lines in the propensity to progress into subsequent cell cycles when mitosis is inhibited with agents that disrupt the assembly of the mitotic spindle apparatus (Colcemid, nocodazole, and taxol). Human HeLa S3 cells, which represent one extreme...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kung AL,Sherwood SW,Schimke RT

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant litter decomposition is a critical step in the formation of soil organic matter, the mineralization of organic nutrients, and the carbon balance in terrestrial ecosystems. Biotic decomposition in mesic ecosystems is generally negatively correlated with the concentration of lignin, a group of complex aromatic pol...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Austin AT,Ballaré CL

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00